Rod Grams: “It is part A. Congress delivered tax relief, Medicare and welfare reform, and a balanced budget to the White House just…”

“It is part A. Congress delivered tax relief, Medicare and welfare reform, and a balanced budget to the White House just as we promised the American people we would, and they were all returned to us ``V-O-A''--``vetoed on arrival.'' So much for high school geometry. What I have come to realize, Mr. President, is that sometimes, the shortest distance between two points is not a straight line at all, but the route with the least congestion. What I want to assure my fellow Americans is that from now on, Congress will follow whatever line takes us where we need to go, and if that means bypassing the gridlock on Pennsylvania Avenue at the White House, so be it. We will not be deterred from pursuing the principles of individual freedom and restraint in Government that have already brought us this far. We moved an important step forward recently with the passage of the Balanced Budget Downpayment Act. The President may have vetoed our balanced budget plan, but our downpayment on it moves us $30 billion closer to a balanced budget, and keeps our children from going another $30 billion in debt, by eliminating a host of wasteful Government programs.”